Paris Hilton named Britney Spears, Kesha, and Demi Lovato as her dream girl squad in an interview with E! News' Erin Lim Rhodes on the FIFA World Cup opening-ceremony red carpet at SoFi Stadium on Friday, June 12, 2026, in a sequence that gave Spears the most visible cross-celebrity shoutout she has received during her ongoing 2026 conservatorship-aftermath stretch. E! News published the interview at 2:14 a.m. ET on Saturday, June 13, with the dream-squad mention sitting alongside a tighter parenting-and-Father's-Day stretch that has historically tracked the way Hilton frames her own brand.
Hilton's actual on-camera comments centered first on her two children with Carter Reum, Phoenix, three, and London, one, and read as a continuation of the slow, controlled motherhood-content cycle she has run since Phoenix's January 2023 birth. "I feel so lucky," she told E! News. "My babies are so kind and sweet." She added that "Everyone says, 'Oh, the terrible twos,' but I have not experienced that," before pivoting to Phoenix's relationship with his younger sister: "Phoenix is the best big brother to London. He's so protective of her, and they're inseparable, so it's really cute to watch them grow up together."
Asked about her dream-collaboration squad, Hilton named Spears first, followed by Kesha and Lovato. She added: "I love her," referencing Lovato specifically, after noting she had been hoping to run into Lovato at the ceremony.
The Britney shoutout is the part of the carpet beat that will travel furthest. Hilton and Spears have one of the longest-documented friendships in modern pop-celebrity history, the 2006 Las Vegas and Hollywood club run, the photographs the British and American tabloids built that year's tabloid cycle around, and the periodic warm-but-distant updates from each woman in the years since. A direct on-record shoutout from Hilton at a FIFA-broadcast event lands with a different audience reach than her usual Instagram-and-podcast reference frame.
The 2026 context for Spears is the framing every outlet covering the moment will reach for. She has spent the year out of the public eye in a way her 2024 and 2025 stretches did not see, the Vegas residency talk that had been circulating in 2024 has gone quiet, her Instagram posts have been less frequent than the year before, and the post-conservatorship arc has settled into a register her audience has been watching for any new signal from. A Hilton-driven shoutout is the kind of signal that draws the audience's attention back to her without requiring a Spears-side post.
The parenting register Hilton spent most of the interview in is the through-line of how she has rebuilt her public brand since This Is Paris in 2020. The motherhood content is calibrated, slow, and controlled, three children in three years across two carriers and a public framing that has consistently leaned into the small-detail wholesome beats rather than the velocity-heavy late-2000s lifestyle content. The FIFA-carpet take on Phoenix and London held that register tightly.
Father's Day is the calendar peg the carpet talk landed on for husband Carter Reum. Hilton told E! News "We celebrate Dad, because he's the best, and probably cook something at home," the framing aligned with the rest of her 2026 content cycle. The line is the kind that her audience reads as warm rather than promotional, and the at-home cook reads as a continuation of the 'Cooking with Paris' brand she has been periodically reviving since the Netflix series in 2021.
What lands between now and the Spears-side response is the part that will shape whether the shoutout converts into a public moment between the two women or stays as a one-side carpet beat. Spears has historically chosen the Instagram-comment route for public-friend interactions of this size, and the next forty-eight hours of her social-media cadence will be the practical signal of whether she responds. Either way, the FIFA-carpet placement of the shoutout is the most public reference to the Hilton-Spears friendship Hilton has offered in a year, and the audience that watches the Spears-side of that friendship will be watching closely.
